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Shanmuga Subramanian: The Chennai Engineer Who Found Vikram Lander – The Quint
In his blog, Subramanian describes himself as “I am a Blogger, Coder Photographer and a Nerd who dabbles with wide array of interests like Travelling, Space, Philosophy, Politics etc.
On 26 September, twenty days after the Vikram lander encountered a hard landing on the surface of the moon, NASA released a mosaic image of the site and invited the public to search it for the signs of the lander.
Just about a week later, on 3 October, Shanmuga Subramanian, a Chennai-based mechanical engineer tagged the handles of NASA, its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and ISRO in a tweet, asking a rather innocuous-looking question, Is this Vikram lander?
All it took Subramanian to reach…
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